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Hope the product is better than the website....

by groundCode 9y ago

ghthor 9y ago
Website seemed quite functional for me on my galaxy 7. What were your gripes?
- shirian 9y ago
  Did not work in Firefox for me, despite allowing all scripts to run. Plus, as a subjective note, I perceived it overall too designy, i.e. more focus on the "coolness" than the information itself.
  - majewsky 9y ago
    Huh? Works for me (FF 53 on Arch Linux). I have uMatrix set to allow only first-party JS by default, but they play nice and serve all JS from the same domain (essential.com) I still find the website overdesigned, of course, but the technical execution worked perfectly for me.
- ghshephard 9y ago
  It killed Safari on my MacBook Air. Chrome seemed to perform a bit better. I almost gave up on the website before find a browser that played well with it.
- apetrovic 9y ago
  On desktop Safari I can see only the top menu. The rest of the page is blank. Works well on Chrome.
  - aedron 9y ago
    Chrome 58, top menu only (only appears after ten seconds). Clicking menu items, nada.
- rodionos 9y ago
  Not working in Chrome 58
- threeseed 9y ago
  (a) It is one of the worst abuses of parallax scrolling. Everything is moving about in a chaotic, flickering fashion with far too many sections. And you have text blocks always covering the images. (b) It is showing four products on the one page. Four. And seemingly jumping between them. (c) Almost all of the text is very hard to read. It's light grey on dark grey. Dark grey on light grey. (d) It doesn't even render at all on Safari/OSX.
  - mrwilhelm 9y ago
    Absolutely no offense, I want to see the works of people who does this kind of comments all the time. I mean, I'm really curious what they are doing. I liked the the design of this website, but when I saw your comments it made sense, but still, I want to see what do you like or did.
- groundCode 9y ago
  My main gripe is that in general, I don't think it puts the user first. It's flashy for the sake of it and I find it a terrible user experience. This is certainly subjective, but it's not helping my impression of the product which I now associate with an ideal that is trying to show how clever the designers are but not really put an excellent sublime user experience in my hands (which is what I think they were shooting for. This is all completely subjective, but they are my impressions none the less. The site "works" on my laptop, but not really on my phone - I'm not a fan of the overly flashy animation intro, again subjective. I work on a small screen (12.5 inch) - here's my narrative as I load the site - the entire screen is taken up with a menu bar and a picture of the top of a device. I'm not sure what is on offer at first glance. Scrolling down there's a lovely story to draw me in by the founder, but still no mention of what the "thing" he is trying to sell is. The first mention on the page of any product is "accessories" - so they sell accessories for phones I guess.....I scroll back up - aaaaah one of the menu items is "phone" - maybe they are selling a phone. That was my user experience on my laptop. On my phone I was greeted with a black screen for quite a few seconds and then a website that was slow and dithering. I tried clicking through to a few sub pages but they froze and then broke my back button completely. Granted it's an old, slow barely internet enabled mobile with a not very well supported OS. Still, it's very seldom I don't get a reasonable experience on well coded websites.
iphone-user-530 9y ago
The website works really well on Safari on an iPhone 7+.

Hope the product is better than the website....

ghthor 9y ago

Website seemed quite functional for me on my galaxy 7. What were your gripes?

shirian 9y ago
Did not work in Firefox for me, despite allowing all scripts to run. Plus, as a subjective note, I perceived it overall too designy, i.e. more focus on the "coolness" than the information itself.
- majewsky 9y ago
  Huh? Works for me (FF 53 on Arch Linux). I have uMatrix set to allow only first-party JS by default, but they play nice and serve all JS from the same domain (essential.com) I still find the website overdesigned, of course, but the technical execution worked perfectly for me.
ghshephard 9y ago
It killed Safari on my MacBook Air. Chrome seemed to perform a bit better. I almost gave up on the website before find a browser that played well with it.
apetrovic 9y ago
On desktop Safari I can see only the top menu. The rest of the page is blank. Works well on Chrome.
- aedron 9y ago
  Chrome 58, top menu only (only appears after ten seconds). Clicking menu items, nada.
rodionos 9y ago
Not working in Chrome 58
threeseed 9y ago
(a) It is one of the worst abuses of parallax scrolling. Everything is moving about in a chaotic, flickering fashion with far too many sections. And you have text blocks always covering the images. (b) It is showing four products on the one page. Four. And seemingly jumping between them. (c) Almost all of the text is very hard to read. It's light grey on dark grey. Dark grey on light grey. (d) It doesn't even render at all on Safari/OSX.
- mrwilhelm 9y ago
  Absolutely no offense, I want to see the works of people who does this kind of comments all the time. I mean, I'm really curious what they are doing. I liked the the design of this website, but when I saw your comments it made sense, but still, I want to see what do you like or did.
groundCode 9y ago
My main gripe is that in general, I don't think it puts the user first. It's flashy for the sake of it and I find it a terrible user experience. This is certainly subjective, but it's not helping my impression of the product which I now associate with an ideal that is trying to show how clever the designers are but not really put an excellent sublime user experience in my hands (which is what I think they were shooting for. This is all completely subjective, but they are my impressions none the less. The site "works" on my laptop, but not really on my phone - I'm not a fan of the overly flashy animation intro, again subjective. I work on a small screen (12.5 inch) - here's my narrative as I load the site - the entire screen is taken up with a menu bar and a picture of the top of a device. I'm not sure what is on offer at first glance. Scrolling down there's a lovely story to draw me in by the founder, but still no mention of what the "thing" he is trying to sell is. The first mention on the page of any product is "accessories" - so they sell accessories for phones I guess.....I scroll back up - aaaaah one of the menu items is "phone" - maybe they are selling a phone. That was my user experience on my laptop. On my phone I was greeted with a black screen for quite a few seconds and then a website that was slow and dithering. I tried clicking through to a few sub pages but they froze and then broke my back button completely. Granted it's an old, slow barely internet enabled mobile with a not very well supported OS. Still, it's very seldom I don't get a reasonable experience on well coded websites.

iphone-user-530 9y ago

The website works really well on Safari on an iPhone 7+.